Luis Carrera

Luis Florentino Juan Manuel Silvestre de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo (1791-8 April 1818) was a Basque-Chilean rebel general who was a fierce rival of Bernardo O'Higgins.

Biography
Carrera completed his studies at the best school in the Captaincy-General of Chile but in 1813 fought for the poor rebels at the Battle of Yerbas Buenas during the South American Wars of Liberation. Carrera later fought rival rebel general Bernardo O'Higgins and drove him into Argentina, taking over the Chilean resistance struggle. In November 1814, later that year, he shot another rival general Juan MacKenna in a duel, and in 1818 he was executed for multiple acts of treason against Chile. He was shot alongside his brother Juan Jose Carrera.